Earthmoving
Earthmoving is the catalog's heavy iron: excavators, loaders, dozers, graders, haulers, and the trenching, vacuum, and crushing equipment around them. Mini excavators are the single largest class, reflecting how much digging happens at utility scale.
Fonctionnement
Each family owns a verb: excavators dig and lift, loaders scoop and carry, dozers push, graders flatten, trucks haul, trenchers and plows cut utility paths, vacuums expose, crushers process. Projects sequence them — mass excavation, hauling, placement, and finish grading — with machine size scaled to volumes and site limits.
Types et variantes
- Excavators
- Mini through full-size excavators for digging, lifting, and demolition.
- Loaders
- Wheel loaders, skid steers, track loaders, and backhoes for loading and carrying.
- Dozers
- Tracked blade machines for pushing, stripping, and rough grading.
- Motor Graders
- Long-frame blade machines for precision road and pad grading.
- Trenchers
- Vibratory plows and trenchers that install buried utilities.
- Vacuum Excavators
- Suction excavation units that expose utilities without digging teeth.
- Off-Road Trucks
- Articulated haulers that carry material over rough and soft ground.
- Tractors
- Compact and agricultural tractors with their implements and attachments.
- Crushing & Screening
- Mobile crushers and screens that process rock and rubble on site.
Comment choisir
The task decides the family; volume, depth, and access decide the size. Utility and residential work runs on minis, skid steers, and compact machines; production earthwork runs on full-size excavators, dozers, and haulers. Underground work adds locating and vacuum excavation, and every dig starts with utility marks.
Normes et certifications
- ISO · ISO 20474
- International safety requirements for earth-moving machinery.
- OSHA · 29 CFR 1926.602
- Material-handling equipment rules covering loaders, graders, dozers, and similar machines.
- Common Ground Alliance
- Damage-prevention best practices, including 811 notification before any excavation.